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For Katie Alice Greer, rock music is a lifestyle of performative truth telling and catharsis. The singer and songwriter of Washington, D.C., punk band Priests unapologetically channels her personal and political convictions into aggressive, high energy performances. To learn more about Priests, visit 666priests666.tumblr.com

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00:00Ideas like what is power and what is beauty and what is intelligence can change.
00:09Maybe you don't totally understand every little thing about feminism, but you hear about someone
00:15being disrespected or laughed at or ignored, and emotionally that's going to resonate with
00:20you somewhere.
00:30You want some new reason, you want something you can write home down.
00:38You want something to move away for a reason to colonize.
00:48New hope is a great uproar, new hope is a great uproar, new hope is a great uproar,
00:54new hope is a great uproar, new hope is a great uproar.
01:07Starting priests was more just fulfilling a dare with myself, scare myself a little bit,
01:14make music in front of people, something that feels unfinished.
01:21That's like typical tour stuff.
01:28For a couple years when we first started priests, I was kind of in this mode where I was like,
01:33I'm pretty much just going to read books and listen to music and consume art and movies
01:39that are like made by women as much as possible to just try to like retrain my brain's appreciation.
01:47Feminists or women in particular just might not speak up at all because it's like such a male language
01:52that's already created.
01:54I think about that a lot with the arts.
01:58People keep telling me to do other colors but I just really like the bright red.
02:03It just suits me right now.
02:05I've always had a really hard time understanding my own emotions.
02:10I don't understand why I feel things that I feel.
02:14So I think that's what got me into writing and art in the first place.
02:17I have like three or four different notebooks.
02:21No rhyme or reason as to why I have three or four different ones.
02:25I'm very preoccupied with ideas of social change and how it works and like I am not an activist.
02:31I'm not a politician.
02:33Now I think I'm an artist.
02:35I didn't always think that I was that either.
02:36I am writer.
02:40I am writer.
02:41I've been running for a while
02:42All of us have been working for a long time
02:45To make you make the best
02:46And there is no more
02:48I understand
02:50It's no more
02:51I can't get the best
02:53But I can't get the best
02:54Watch your second grade
02:57Watch your second grade
02:59And there is an end
03:02I can't get the best
03:04I can't get the best
03:06I can't get the best
03:07I can't get the best
03:09All the time
03:15I'm in a place in my life where I like myself a lot, I believe in myself, which hasn't always
03:22been the case at all.
03:24So if it seems like I'm going at it full force, totally, I totally am.
03:31I want people to see all of that.
03:33To me being an artist is like I want to show you as much of myself as possible.
03:38I'm just trying to figure shit out before I'm dead or like, you know, before I can't
03:45do this anymore.
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